a good general text, easy to comprehend for people in Karrot project or used to alternative circles
for people not in alternative circles, maybe hard to comprehend what it actually means, e.g. “what is the money circle?”
says describe an agreement for each contributor, but what would it look like? amount of money, could make it more tangible
in second paragraph there is an explanation of how we see money, would move that into the beginning, “How do we perceive money”, so add some headings, preface, process, how we get to outcomes. with the goal to help outsiders to understand it better
Nathalie:
I like it a lot
saw we made a few amendments from initial draft
feel like it makes sense
like this second paragraph, feels quite honest, e.g. within our financial capacities
two minor points:
practicalities of money circle, usually takes place in the weekly meeting, not after it
a bit more tangible about how we do things, could mention opencollective, e.g. “all money is collected by our fiscal host and visible on our opencollective”
like the sense we have one collection of money, and we had some confusion before about whether to have extra agreements
nice sense to collect all the money from all the sources (not thinking about who brought it in), and then redistributing it
agree with butze, as the agreement could just be amount of money
Nick:
likes it
balance between dreamy vision (working from our hearts) and lived realities, we touch both parts of that
broadly made sense to me
guideline: what do we mean by this, e.g. the 3 categories for contribution, we’re open to have discussion about others
guideline could mean different things to different people
external work not reflected here, difference between core work and ‘external’ work, nothing to add here, but reflecting that not all situation are covered (where there is an overlap in projects)
‘in the meeting’ could just edit that
tangible is good, but could be prescriptive instead of descripive
example section could be nice, based on previous examples
once we get fiscal host, we can include it in there and link it
not about who brings it in, support making that explicit
adding headings, would be happy about this: ideoligical background, what we’ll discuss, facts/ how it happens, examples - but not too motivted to work on headings myself, as it’s not a very long text
Butze:
also stumbled on the word “guideline”, not sure a good other word
it also says “people who use Karrot”, so users of karrot could come and ask for money?
also don’t see the need to structure to the text, but would be happy to
Nathalie:
also not so motivated to structure the text with headlines, as it seems not too long
am motivated to add a sentence here or there:
opencollective
one money pot
and in the weekly meeting, not after
openness of money circle? didn’t advocate for it to be so open, but happy with it, currently we only give money to karrot team, open to some flexibility, in reality mostly people in karrot team
Nick:
openness, just leave it, but how do people know? they would need to be aware of it and somehow active
we did pay travel costs to karrot users, could be worth having a section, making it clearer for other people
next steps
bring back a new version of text to a meeting (maybe after fiscal host?)
I’d like to do an interview (8 to 10 questions, written asynchronously) and publish it on the APC website.
Would you agree?
If so, who should I write to to send these questions?
Looking forward to hearing from you
5. Actions and Outcomes
write feedback and reflections on suggesting Karrot to parents coop [Bruno]
change getting started guide to give the right message for undergrad students [Vasilis]
summary is that we dont have capacity for dev contributions but HCIish things yes
technical design of signup public activities on Codeberg [Nick]
bring back a new version of text to a meeting (maybe after fiscal host?) [Nathalie, nick happy to co-work on it]
very aware that the role desing process should start soon
finish the polls we d like to bring it in a meeting before it gets to development
for the roles. call a meeting…follow the design process, come up with a penpot, basically similarly to the polls (hosted by Nathalie)
keep in mind/updated with reality
some can progress when we got the fiscal host (no money on the account atm)
when Jay is back: Jay’s membership
Agreements: Member policy
§3 Becoming a Member paragraph
round of reactions:
Bruno: met her already and feels like she’s got the qualities for becoming a member. Saw a commitment and interest in cotributing mainly with development, but also with other tasks, would be interested to hear a bit more about how she sees her contributions in the future
Nathalie: a little ritual, meeting in person in Siegen helped me a lot, do see a lot of commitment, contribute, design process, there is a lot of things in favor of u also joining the team, one sense, hard to articulate: concern that engaging in a self-organised env might lead to overwhelm.
Vas: missed meeting in person, do see a good fit, beautiful to see Jay coming to the meetings, liked that Jay was sharing ideas already, good energy, likes to see team growing!
Nick:(re)echo, nice to build on the ‘in person’ base, enthusiasm is quite obvious and present, general in chatting, talking + Singing!!!, lots of ideas, bright thought, idea of having more ppl to develop (increased tech team) ‘I like that’ (Nick), learning the new tech we use, knowlegde sharing, space for learning within the self-organised, lack of urgency in Karrot, we dont have this ‘urgency’, its more present or slow or whatever is fitting, hope it feels that way as well, ‘slow spaciness’ can be nice and frustrating. A space to explore my experiences in siegen relating the situation with fslux
Jay: sorry have to be in and out of meetings, set time not compatible with my schedule. Fslux as one of the ‘users’ of Karrot, I m OK discussing about it. Overwhelm doesnt put pressure on me, had a positive experience, in general I have a positive experience, well organised but yet not so strict to stress me out, good match, from an idelogical, I want to be part of socially. How the process feels? It feels a bit stressful. ‘It is a bit like an interview’. My job is doing enough to cover my money needs atm.
centre for sociodigital futures (post-doc). Wrote me an email, ideas of trust. Community Econonomies, fancy working with me? workshop of paper,blog or seminar, invitation to explore that further, no big rush, away till end of July
Nathalie good opportunity, I m not so interested in joining atm. Still vague but nice. Would ‘nominate’ Vas or Bruno to join if they like. How do u see the money involved?
Vas is happy to join/participate/chat/explore
Jay happy to join, interesting discussion that might come up
Nick: reply to Matt, propose an exploratory meeting, 1h or so and see where to go from there
If there is 250 a day, woulld like to participate as a team, a community in that way. Simpler to include that as pooled money
future meeting:
bring polls design into meeting for discussion/approval
one of the structured sessions: ABCs of the new econommy, attend an annual EGM, join a committed role, middle role: listed 7 things, e.g. learning skills, sharing connections, contribute ideas, tell stories was quite a nice one, two ppl had interesting chats with, commons booking, curcilar economy urban project e.g. have a karrot instance, the other project was a shared economy project using open-collective, would be a while before Karrot would make sense for them, made me think of Karrot as a core that is supported by plugins/extention. A community around deaf users also connected to, eg a work on a join application funding platform to work on more tailor made features. Got some good ideas overall for Karrot
session on investing/funding: going down and gets harder and harder, everyone seems to ‘hate’ the whole thing, models outside waiting for the funding cow are important to find.
community tech session didnt engage much but nice ppl to talk to
like it how it is, wait until it’s true as we’re still in process with all for climate
Open Collective
get rid of ‘in the sense of redistribution’
not very clear what is meant by decouple income generation and receiving money
happy with text
‘however we recognize…’ not logically coherent, conclusion that is drawn
common pot aplies to funding, some do more fundign oriented work that other and therefore ‘generate’ more income
not sure about ‘decoupling’, is it clear for outsider?
confused about categories of contribution, is it for Karrot members or outside contributors? Is there no fixed salary?
Alternative wording of redistribution sentence
3 categories: paragraph above has the relevant information, doesn’t only refer to Karrot team, problem of guidelines, happy to get rid of it if it’s adding confusion, it is not a boundary, emphasis on discussion part
monthy or task based compensation, not categorise contributors
not speak about ‘3 categories’ but ‘ways of contributing’ instead of putting a number
don’t see myself in any category
process question: consent to written proposals, continue rewriting other parts, iterative approach
Proposal:
Adopt new version of agreement with a term of 1 year.
Bring back proposal after tomorrow’s co-working
Add current changes in bold
Consent round
Objection: 'we aim to distribute the money fairly ': unclear what fairly means, it is vague and doesn’t reflect what we mean
Proposal: Agree on everything else and leave this part (2nd paragraph) to coworking session
Consent!
Next steps
update agreement on forum and karrot group [Nathalie]
report from FOSC Community of Practice [Vas]
good meeting, 7-8 people, 3 people from SoFA, others from other projects (US, Poland)
skipped bureacratic parts e.g. SoFA membership to join
getting to know each other, some started implementing socicoracy
made a list of topics for the future
meet once a month
very grounded, different ideas
interested to think about fluctuating participation, how could sociocracy work there
not only focused on decision making but building relationship, sharing emotions
shared values implicit in open-source and sociocracy
expressed personal interest ‘out of the papers and to the hands of actual communities’
writing to vas and butze to ask for some references for papers for the issue of trust
how it connects with real-world trust
matt dowse initially wrote:
“Specifically, I’m thinking about the idea of trust and how trust is built through community technology practices and processes – both in the ways that organising in this space is constituted and broadly governed (alt models etc) and how these practices can form particular kinds of trust (and vulnerability) and what this means to how community technology might be imagined in the future as a trust making practice…… In part, this links to some of the community economies summer school work that I’ve been working on in that I think that trust has the potential to sensitize us to some of the invisible practices that make up community tech practice and which might be generative to future thinking about community tech and what it does/can could do (in opposition to some of the more damaging effects and or practices of more capitalist forms of tech practice).”
not much research around trust which is not transactional (reviews, star systems), different forms of trust e.g. trusting someone to hold a role, relational form of trust is build gradually, some papers on relations trust, but not much how technology can mediate this (related to HCI)
different faces: trust people, trust mission, trust culture, trust platform as a software, trust towards an instance admin, trust to be solid
needs to think more about the conection of trust, roles and selection processes, also looking at our next Dsign Process for Roles
is trust-building a fundamantally non-technologial process? How much can technology really do?
sociocracy supports trust-building and psychologival safety in circles/ small groups
Who is interested to join an inital call with Matt?
Jay, Vas, Bruno, Nick
how to find a date?
take some time beforehand and use a co-working to collect trust related topics
could do it or do it together with Matt
Proposal
Ask Matt if they have an agenda and plan for the meeting, propose to use co-working time (August 7th)
Jay, Vas, Bruno and Nick will take part
continue in co-working
review List of ideas at the bottom of this page, remove items that magically happened and celebrate! [Nathalie]
